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OTA bitmap
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<p> OTA Bitmap (Over The Air Bitmap) was a specification designed by <a href="/facts/Nokia/bCleFoF4">Nokia</a> for black and white images for mobile phones. </p><p>The OTA Bitmap was defined by Nokia as part of their <a href="/facts/Smart_Messaging/x35kUgKQ">Smart Messaging</a> specification, to send pictures as a series of one or more <a href="/facts/Concatenated/1npYg6rc">concatenated</a> <a href="/facts/SMS/kacRfW0X">SMS</a> text messages. The format has a maximum size of 255x255 pixels. It is very rare for an OTA bitmap to measure anything other than 72x28 pixels (for Picture Messages) or 72x14/72x13 pixels (for <a href="/facts/Operator_logo/mccSzdPf">Operator Logos</a>). The specification contains a byte of data to be used for indicating a multicolour image. This was to future-proof the standard, but the advent of <a href="/facts/Multimedia_message/Pg5CvwLx">MMS</a> meant it never got to implementation. </p>